For Venture Capitalists

According to Prof. Elisa Alvarez-Garrido from Georgia State University, even ventures who know a lot about where they’re heading can still benefit much from investors. “They also need a lot of help with other things. Corporate Venture Capitalists do not only lend them the money but also help them figure out the issues about their regulation, for instance.” Prof. Alvarez-Garrido …

“The connection between industry and innovation is very important and needs to be strong,” says Prof. Tau Xu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in a video interview to CIV. He thinks there are two main ways in which the connection needs to happen. First, Xu thinks that the companies should provide the needs of the market to the scientists, …

Every entrepreneur raising equity from investors faces a fundamental trade-off between retaining greater ownership in the company versus raising more funds. Equity crowdfunding is a recent FinTech innovation, allowing entrepreneurs to raise funding from "crowd" investors who can individually invest in a campaign, in return for equity shares. In a guest post by Nir Vulkan (Oxford Business School), the researchers set out to try and understand what factors explain the decision of entrepreneurs to take overfunding.

With Brexit looming, the uncertainty about London’s economic future is at its peak. What happens next? Can London survive the separation from the European Union? This video is our take on the impact of Brexit on the London venture ecosystem, summarized from Issue 5 of Coller Venture Review.

Prize4Life is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the discovery of treatments and cures for ALS. Prize4Life chose an unusual path for accelerating the way to a cure for ALS: the Prize Model, which allows it to invest not in the problem but in the solution. Why are prizes the best way to finance research? Read the answer in a guest post by Shay Rishoni